The profitability of remanufacturing systems for different cost, technology, and logistics structures has been …. The profitability of a remanufacturing system strongly depends on these issues as well as on their interactions. For a … monopolist, we show that there exist thresholds on the remanufacturing cost savings, the green segment size, market growth rate …

This paper considers an inventory system with an assembly structure. In addition to uncertain customer demands, the … reused, and these units are returned to inventory. Returns complicate the structure of the system, so that the standard …-recovery pattern and restrictions on the inventory policy under which an equivalent series system does exist. For the special case …

, collection rate, product life cycle, and component durability to create or maximize production cost savings from remanufacturing. …

The importance of remanufacturing used products into new ones has been widely recognized in the literature and in …

This paper is on production planning and inventory control in systems where manufacturing and remanufacturing … managerial insights into the inventory related effects of remanufacturing. … output of the remanufacturing process can be used to fulfill customer demands. Here, we consider a relatively simple hybrid …

identify thresholds in remanufacturing operations. Next, we focus our attention on the duopoly environment where an independent … various parameters in the Nash equilibrium. Among other results, we find that if remanufacturing is very profitable, the … increase the number of cores available for remanufacturing in future periods. Further, as the threat of competition increases …

operational measures. We model a manufacturing firm that can purchase BI insurance, invest in inventory, and avail of emergency … optimal insurance deductible and coverage limit as well as the optimal inventory level. We prove that insurance and …, insurance can increase the marginal value of inventory and can increase the overall value of emergency sourcing. We also find …

This paper presents a model that incorporates variations in the demand rate at random time points into the inventory …-hand inventory, ordering rate, and the expected total cost rate for a given ordering policy. A sensitivity analysis is conducted, and …